Photo above: Lord Lyon, early 1900s – family with pram passing by. The Talbot can be seen with cart outside.
Listed in its early days as Regent Street, Belgrave, and first came to notice in February 1867, when auctions were held here . The pub didn’t gain a lot of press coverage as it was out of the city boundary at the time, although Enoch Warrington was fined 4/- for being drunk &disorderly and for refusing to quit the Lord Lyon in October 1875.
Licensees included Thomas Pegg 1874, Edward Blood 1879,John Draycott 1887, Arthur Sturgess 1895, 1899 Wm Bonsor, 1902 Edward Cramp and 1922 Maurice Holmes. 1936 Alfred Holmes, 1945 Albert Madelin, and 1956 Claude Moseley.
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